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Bug 363

Summary: configure script fails to pass with-sdl-prefix to sdl-config
Product: SDL_image Reporter: Andrew Radford <aradford>
Component: miscAssignee: Sam Lantinga <slouken>
Status: RESOLVED INVALID QA Contact: Sam Lantinga <slouken>
Severity: normal    
Priority: P2    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: Other   

Description Andrew Radford 2006-11-16 05:16:57 UTC 
Using 1.2.5 stable off the homepage
Compiling on RHEL4 x86 32bit Linux 

I am using configure to set up a MIPS cross compile on a x86 box

Because of this, the SDL libs and headers are compiled for mips in a directory other than /usr/local. Configure should execute sdl-config with -prefix=<path/to/mips/sdl/installation> because supplied the correct --with-sdl-prefix parameter to configure. Instead sdl-config is called with no -prefix parameter, causing it to default to /usr/local - which contains either the wrong (x86) libs or none at all.

In configure, changing $SDL_CONFIG to pass $sdl_args instead of $sdlconf_args made this work. It seems $sdlconf_args or $sdl_config_args are empty. 

Note I am no expert in configure & autotools, so this may not be a bug if configure can be rebuilt somehow to fix this.
Comment 1 Sam Lantinga 2007-07-12 20:59:25 UTC 
This seems like a bug in your SDL installation.  If I configure SDL with --prefix=/usr/local/cross-tools/i386-mingw32, and then do make install, an sdl-config will be generated and installed in /usr/local/cross-tools/i386-mingw32/bin, and running that with the --cflags and --libs arguments will yield:
-I/usr/local/cross-tools/i386-mingw32/include/SDL -D_GNU_SOURCE=1 -Dmain=SDL_main
-L/usr/local/cross-tools/i386-mingw32/lib -lmingw32 -lSDLmain -lSDL -mwindows